The Dickinson press., 1887-12-03
THE NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS,
Interesting Items Briefly ChronicIed
For Our Readers.

Cullough, realizes So. 900 for division be.
tween the widow and his son, James Nc
Cullough.
Wheat receipts at Minneapolis for the
week aggregated 1897, 900 bushels and
the product of the tiour-mills amounted
to about 1000 barrels per day.
One hundred farmers institutes will
he held this winter in Ohio as part of the
commcmoratiou of the one hundredth
anniversary of the founding of that state.
The Louisiana rice crop is turning out
smaller than the most conservative esti-
mate, and prices are lirmer. Trade in
rice is now fairly good, without being es.
pecially large
Work ON the new 500. 900 bridge across
the Cedar ut Waterloo, Iowa. is progress
ing rapidly.
Council Bluffs is working hard to secure
the next session of the approaching Re
publican convention.
On account of the scarcity of water the
Minneapolis mills have been limited To
running sixteen hours per day.
The general managers nave tinat lily dis
continued the soft coal war. and estab-
lishcl the rates just where they were be-
for" the roads began to cut. After Dec.
5 they will he S:2 per ton from Chicago and
milwaukee, to st. Paul.
The annual report of the engineer in
change of the government canal at
kcokuk, Iowa. shows that this years
freight traffic was greater than that of
the preceding year, and that the lumber
business was the largest done through
the canal.
Dubuque will have an Incorporated base
ball club mex season.
h BELL Telephone company is said to
he opposed to Lamar going on the SUI
preme bench.
Twenty-seven schools in the vicinity of
Cannon Falls, Mimi, have ordered libra
ries under the act of the last legislature.
n mob 600 strong attacked the Saliva
ton army barracks at Quebec Friday
night and smashed all the widows. Many
SalvationistS were injured.
An estimate of the dwellings aud stores
erected in Duluth the past Year shows
something over 500 nave been erected. ut,
Il cost of about 81 200, 600. The cost of
hotels, warehouses and elevators will
bring the total up to 81, O0O, 900, OF twice
that of lNS6,
The site for the proposed military post
" IiiSiiNpot, uSol SllNUSO. hIllCl COu-
si>tS of G52 acres, has been formally &C.
cepted by the war department.
The increase i'll the whole number of
~r"st-ot1ices during the fiscal year was
LOEB. The whole number of post-ofices
in operation on June 30. 1887, wal
81. 15i.
In the suit against railroads for dis
eliminating against the competitors Of
the Standard oil company, it is admitted
that the oil company controls a
$50, 00O, 900 trust.
Duluth stocks of wheat show u de-
crease last week of $50, 900 bushels, ship
ments for the week being tremendous
fully $50. GOO bushels. Receipts for the
month will be 4, 100, 600 or more bushels,
or at least 100000 more than n year ago.
Over 800, 900 was disbursed anon the
miners ut Dcadwood, ID. r., Monday, it
being payday.
The Sheldon, Iowa, people are praying
for the mayor of that place to remove the
Salvation army from their city on nc
count of their hypocritical actions.
All practical measures proceeding in
Russia show no cessation Of the wal
feeling. Troops are daily arriving at
Warsaw from the interior and pass to-
ward the frontier. They will 20 into
/ winter quarters along the Nistula and
the railways.
1t would seem that there is no founda-
ton for the stories that have been circu-
lated to the effect that the capitol at
Austin, Texas, is insecure. Governor
Ross thinks there is not a stronger or bet
ter built structure in the country and
such architects as have examined it re-
port upon it %favorably.
The Standard Oil company are putting
i'll tanks at Watcrtown, ID. II.
The rainy season has set in ON the Pu-
citic coast rain having prevailed through
out the Pacific coast for the past three
days.
Iranscontinental lines have granted
the Pacific Mail steamship line a subsidy
of $4,000 a month, to keep out of any
rate wars.
The Manitoba road will run twenty
snow plows this year., instead of ten.
Construction on the road has ceased for
the season.
The people OF Omaha have subscribed a
fund OF 500, 600 as u guarantee fund to
pay the expenses of the next Republican
convention, if held in Omaha.
Ninety-li five cigar factories in Havana
shut down, owingto the demand of cigar
makers for an increase in wages.
The friends of Gen. Bragg, of Wiscon-
sin, want him made minister to Mexico.
Northern Pacific is issuing sheets of
twenty coupons, bearing 6 per cent. in
t%erest, to run twtnty years, to meet divi-
dend certificates falling due this year.
Manitoba surveyors are now running
II line from HalSteaG, west via Caledonia,
to head off the Minnesota g. Dakota,
which contemplates a line through the
same territory.
An effort is to be made in congress to
open portion of Indian Territory for set
Element, and to legalize entry upon the
vast tract of unoccupied land known as
IL mans land"
The amount of land restored to the
public domain, through orders revoking
the indemnity Withdrawals, is stated by
the commissioner of the general land
office to be 81, $685. 600 acres.
Chairman B. L. Jones, of the Republic
can national committee, said at Pitts
burg that he does not believe Blaine has
any intention or desire to be nominated
next year.
New York papers comment very differ
emily on the conviction of Most. The
Tribune says Most was convicted on a
fair trial, while the Times says the jury
simply looked upon him as a noxious
animal which is less dangerous in Jail
than at large.
The Maryland state veterinary officers
are still %eNtirpating the contagious dis
eases among cattle in the city and SUI
burbs. Since the quarantine went into
effect, the 10th ult., 121 cattle have been
killed. 1t is thought the quarantine will
not be declared off in less than six
months.
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Preparations to Celebrate on u MnSnif-
cent Scale the 100 Anniversary OF
Washinston's Inauguration.
NEW York, Nov. 30.-The movement
TO celebrate the one hundredth anniyer-
| Snr.v of fha in11, ,rot;~n of yVy..I